North Village Votes Funds for New Firehouse
North Bennington residents approved funding at a special village meeting to build a new firehouse on the Grist Mill site. A reforming committee, including Village Trustees, Fire Department leaders, and local planning representatives, will study site suitability and historic context before planning next steps.
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North Village
Bennington
Fred Welling
John Lowre
Sanford Buxbaum
Martin Percey
Royal Crosier
Fire Department
Richard Corcoran
Lawrence Powers
Arthur Wickenden
John McCullough
North Bennington
Allen
Walloomsac Jim Hoag Jr Wins 4-H National Fair Title
Hoag Jr. returned from Water loo Iowa where the New York State 4-H judging team won first place at the National Fair and earned a month long Europe trip in July. He is a freshman at Cobleskill Agricultural and Technical Institute. The piece also notes local visits by Mrs Moira Cofrancisco and Mrs John Ellis, and reports the birth of Susan Jean Herrington. The Flying Tail 4-H Club announces officers Joyce Hoag president Walter Paladino vice president Verna Jane Ketchum secretary Ben Hill III treasurer.
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Jim Hoag Jr
Waterloo
Iowa
New York State
Europe
Cobleskill
Joyce Hoag
Walter Paladino
Valley Falls
Verna Jane Ketchum
Johnsonville
Ben Hill III
Schaghticoke
Pownal Fire Dept Sponsors First Fall Record Hop
One hundred area youths attended the season opener at the Pownal fire house sponsored by the Pownal Fire Department Auxiliary. Contests awarded in Waltz and Rock Roll categories featured multiple couples.
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Pownal
Milton Pratt
Karen George
Allen Burdick
Sharon Jelley
Stephen Woodcock
Marcia Buck
Ernest Langlais
Donna Strobridge
Carl Dickinson
Debra Chenaille
Donald Armstrong
Bonnie Rhodes
Michael Pratt
Twist
Pamela George
Francis Haley
Jean Rogers
Jean Garofano
Linda Niles
Patrick Gray
Barbara Roy
Beverly George
Mary Clayburn
Joseph Louzelle
David Woodcock
George Renner
Wilfred LaBonte
Glenn Sweet
Grace Hill
John Maxmillian
Harry W. Beals Jr
Ralph Mattison
Ralph Bishop
Manchester area hosts meetings and Christmas lodging plans
Dr Mason B Barney attended a two day New England Academy of Applied Osteopathy meeting in Danvers Mass. The Chamber of Commerce reports rising Christmas holiday bookings with stays of a week to ten days. Exhibit space for the Area Trade Show will be allocated Oct 9 at 11 am. Renovations at First Baptist Church include ceiling repairs and wall painting led by John West, plus a new stove donation.
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Mason B. Barney
Danvers
Mass
New England Academy of Applied Osteopathy
Chamber of Commerce
Margaret Saunders
Chamber
Saunders
Conley Smith
Chattanooga
First Baptist Church
John West
Williams College Sets $25 Million Decade Goal
Williams College announces a ten year fund drive targeting 25 million dollars with 17.5 million earmarked to strengthen the endowment. Chairman Alfred E. Driscoll, former New Jersey governor, leads the effort. President John E. Sawyer notes past campaigns reached 2.5 million in 1947 and 4 million in 1959.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred E. Driscoll
New Jersey
Warner Lambert Pharmaceutical Company
Williams
John E. Sawyer
Williams College seeks 14 million in three year drive
North Bennington PTA invites teachers and parents to a Tuesday 8 p.m. meeting in the school gym. Miriam Derwacher Missionary Society meets Wednesday 7 30 p.m. at the Baptist Church social rooms. St Johns Sodality gathers Wednesday 8 p.m. in the library with a program for all women of the parish. Williams launches a 25 4 million drive to fund needs through the coming decade. Ford Foundation provides a 2 5 million challenge grant on a 3 to 1 match, with installments tied to raising 7 5 million. The 175th Anniversary Fund marks West Colleges 1791 building and Williams 1793 opening. nearly 200 alumni attended kickoff.
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Lauriston Wilcox
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Methodist Youth Fellowship
Harry W. Beals Jr
Charles H
Clarence H. Nickerson
Torrington
Charles W. Rounds
Pownal
George Renner
First Baptist Church
Renner
Pamela George
Philip Pratt
Pownal Center
Center School
Paul Rounds
Mark
Fort Devens
Mass
Rounds
James Steele
Second Congregational Church
Williamstown
Williams College
PTA
Miriam Derwacher Missionary Society of the Baptist Church
St. John’s Sodality
Sawyer
Williams
Ford Foundation
West College
Marlboro College Adds Three Directors
Marlboro College announces three new trustees Mrs. Henry G Hunt of Hartford Conn Carl W Janke of Cambridge Mass and Andrew Oliver of New York City joining the 24 member board Mrs Hunt an attorney has served in federal and state roles and authored works on Mayan ruins Janke has held Harvard and university posts and Oliver is a New York lawyer and church leader with ties to the New York Historical Society and General Theological Seminary
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Marlboro
Marlboro College
Henry G. ‘Hunt
Hartford, Conn
Carl W. Janke
Cambridge
Mass
Andrew Oliver
New York City
Hunt
Ribicoff and Kotkin
Georgia
Connecticut
District of Columbia
U.S. Court of Claims
U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Department of Justice
O.P.A
Pace Committee On Food
U.S. House of Representatives
Mexico
Janke
Burlington
Harvard University
Drury College
Springfield
University of Ilinois
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F. Elwood Allen
Wilson Ford Fair Dealing
Biggins
New England
Quaker
Walloomsac
Bertha Hoag
Moira Jean Cofrancisco
Hoosick Falls
Gordon Hoag
John Ellis
Cofrancisco
Middle Falls
Sherman Herrington
Susan Jean
Main ST
New Bennington
VOVECK-SHULTZ_ Inc
Neida Silversmiths
The
Pownals
Vera Langlais
Manchester
Nancy Otis
Elizabeth Dwyer
Junior Foods
Salem’s
Bennington Banner
Ment
Washington University
St. Louis
University of Vermont
Cambridge Chamber of Commerce
Treaser
Financial Executives Institute
Alexander
Eal
Sir John
Schenley Distillers CO
W.Y.C
Lance
Savings and Loan Associations
Bermington Co- Operative Savings Association
South ST
Bennington, VT
Savings and Loan Association
Frankford
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